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Annotation Types

Learn what Annotation Types are, how they work, and how to set up your own.

Jared Elliott avatar
Written by Jared Elliott
Updated over a year ago

Table of Contents

Entity Type

Permission Type

Permission Description

Annotation Types

View

The ability to view Annotation Types

Annotation Types

Create

The ability to create new Annotation Types

Annotation Types

Update

The ability to update existing Annotation Types

If you don't have the permissions to follow along in this article, please reach out to your project's admin.

Before you read this article, you may want to learn about annotating drawings in O3.


Navigation

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New Navigation

(1) Expand the left-side menu and (2) click on Project Setup > (3) Project Settings.

Classic Navigation

(1) Expand the left-side menu and (2) click on Project Settings.

Regardless of the method you chose above, (1) click on Entity Settings > (2) Drawings. Then (3) Annotation Types at the top.

Creating New Annotation Types

Click on the + above the grid.

Annotations have 2 flags:

  1. Create Constraint - create a constraint when an annotation of this type is created

  2. Is Restricted - only users with the View and Edit Restricted Annotations will be able to see annotations of this type.

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